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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help, I can't get input focus under olwm
Message-ID: <936@redford.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:48:56 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
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In article <9012180213.AA13153@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM> smarks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart Marks) writes:
>
>dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) writes:
>
>    Subject:  Help, I can't get input focus under olwm
>
>    I have run into a peculiar problem using my favorite X application,
>    XCONQ, on my shiny new Sparcstation.  I can't direct the input focus
>    to XCONQ's window.
>
>This is the canonical problem where the client program has failed to set
>the "hints" on its window to tell the window manager that it is eligible to
>receive the input focus.  There's a document called the ICCCM (Inter-Client
>Communication Conventions Manual) that is an X Consortium standard.  (It's
[stuff deleted]

I have found this is not necessarily true.  I have an application that
does set the hint, and it does work under TWM, but when run under olwm on
a X11R4 server (my client is an X11R4 program), unless the user set the
'FocusLenience' hint, our windows cannot get input focus.  I have seen
many people post "I can't get input focus under olwm", and suspect it may
be an obscure problem with olwm.  I don't have olwm, so I can't do the
testing.

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